(With an E on the end)
Don’t press strange buttons in Internet Explorer’s menus at school. You might get punished for it.
Depending on how things turn out, I may not be around for a while
Two hours later, things turned out okay, at least until Monday. And I can’t be any more specific for fear of wrath of various people.
The domains various computers in my house resolve most often:
The wii.com ones are my Wii doing its WiiConnect24 stuff. a.root-servers.net is a root DNS server. sim3464 is (currently) my sim, Foobar Salad. faeriedevilish.blogspot.com is Mariel’s blog, and dwellonit.blogspot.com is Tateru Nino’s blog. Both blogs are pinged by my RSS reader every twenty minutes.
It’s more than a little unusual for me to delete whole threads like this, but the kind of insensitivity, and hero-worship of school shooters shown here is a completely unacceptable use of the TSL Forums. Paired with trolling and personal attacks, the result has been a totally inflammatory and inappropriate thread. Disciplinary action will be taken by customer support.
My personal thanks to those of you who stood up for good taste and chose to show your humanity in the face of deeply callous comments by condemning them.
Blue Linden posted this after wiping out almost the entirety of the thread entitled “Virginia Tech Memorial (School shootings).” I can’t say I’m suprised – there were comments on how people didn’t care, how people had attempted suicide, why the people shot were to blame and the shooter was the real victim, etc.
Yleri Tokhes, who was one of the “I don’t care, this means nothing” people, has already vanished from search – since he said he had already been suspended before, I strongly suspect he’s been banned. I also suspect that Jay Clostermann, who had by far the worst posts there, will be on the receiving end of some action.
Sigh…
I have changed my opinion on adults on the teen grid. I’m not against them, but I’m no longer for them.
Why? Because they aren’t doing any educating!
I don’t mind the teen grid having more adult sims than teen sims. I couldn’t care less. What I care about is that they aren’t doing any of what they’re here to do; that is, teaching.
Let us consider Global Kids. They now have three sims: Global Kids, GK Machinima Island and GK Serious Gaming. Why do they need a GAMING sim to teach?
In short, they don’t. They use it to run games. If they let other teens use those resources, I wouldn’t mind. But they don’t – it’s all no build. So them and their managers have the resources to outdo anyone confined to parcels of land on the grid.
TG Adults are going downhill, fast. They had better do something about it.
Oh, and as a side note, I can’t help but be amused by the physics group on Schome Park. Here are some helpful hints:
llSetForce(<0.0,0.0,9.8*llGetMass()>,FALSE);Adults, do something useful. (I am aware Schome Park does more than try and work out SL’s physics, but that project is pointless. I advise they go and read this.)
I’m back home – woo!
Now work on my latest project can continue without having to try and work with annoyingly slow computers and broken browsers (IE7).
Oh, and hopefully this blog will be a bit less dead too.
I love this picture. It combines Link, Amnesty and the colour pink. He’s also standing on some US currency, which I dislike. But eh.
THIS DOESN’T WORK ANY MORE. Since people tend to come here looking for information on uploading sound files to SL in Google, you do so by uploading a 44.1KHz WAV file that is LESS than 10.0 seconds long – exactly 10.0 is too long.
I’ve made a system for uploading MP3s to SL. It splits the MP3 into multiple 9.99 second long pieces, converts them to 128 kbps, 44.1KHz, mono Ogg Vorbis files (the format SL uses), and uploads them using your account. It then generates and prints out some LSL that you can use to play the file back.
If you want to use my service, I give you this warning first:
This system requires your SL name and password. While I promise that this data is never stored or transmitted, and nor are the caps URLs that are received from the login server. However, common sense says one should not give out their password. Ever. Unless you have some reason to trust me absolutely, change your password temporarily, use my service, and immediately change it back. Alternatively, just don’t use the system. If there’s any demand for it (as determined by comments and/or IMs), I’ll make a version that uses TSLE’s system account and takes the upload fees from your TSLE balance, thus avoiding you entering your SL password. You’d have to enter your TSLE password, but given that you do that whenever you use TSLE, which I also run, this isn’t a problem.
Having said that, I’ll also point out that you have to log out before using this, as the system needs to contact the login server to get some data back. When it does so it will log you out if you are logged in, after which the upload will fail. It also costs L$10 for every 9.99 seconds, due to asset upload fees.
With all the disclaimers, warnings, advisories, etc. out of the way, you can find it at https://secure.katharineberry.co.uk/upload/. Yes, I know my certificate is self signed. It’s that or sending passwords as plaintext.
Having spent the weekend in Cambridge, I’m now back at home. Woo.
And it’s the Easter holiday. Yay! 
